Juvenile periodontitis in black Jamaican females: A prospective study of eleven cases

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: The aim was to study prospectively the clinicopathological aspects of juvenile periodontitis (JP) in Jamaica and assess the outcome of treatment (combined appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy and periodontal surgery/manipulation). METHODS: The records of 11 patients (all Jamaica females of Africian descent) consecutively diagnosed as JP, were reviewed. The outcome of treatment (appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy combined with periodontal surgery/manipulation) was assessed and documented. The microbiological swabs were taken from either the gingival sulcus, periodontal pathological pocket or root surface and sent to the Department of Microbiology of the University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, for microbiological analysis, prior to commencement of appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy. RESULTS: The clinical and radiographic findings in this series of cases of juveniles periodontitis in Jamaica were consistent with what has been previously documented by other authors on JP throughout the world. However, the microbiolgy of JP in this study was varied, implicating organisms other than Actinobacillus actinomycetemiconitans, Capnnocytophagia spp, and E corridens. CONCCUSION The outcome of treatment using these techniques was satisfactory.(Au)